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Building a Factorio Multiplayer Server on Digital Ocean

I’m pleased to announce we’ve released a cookbook to build a multiplayer server for Factorio. If you don’t know, Factorio is a resource gathering game with real-time strategy and survival elements, development by Wube Software. With the following steps you can create a multiplayer server on Digital Ocean or the like, and try to get off the planet with your friends!

These are the steps to create a Factorio server on Digital Ocean. The initial setup is only done the first time, then you’ll be able to do just the create command when you want a new Factorio Server.

You can do the following steps with something like Rackspace or AWS. You just need to switch out the knife-digital_ocean commands with either knife-rackspace or knife-ec2. There are different configurations you need to do with either knife plugins, and slightly different commands to create servers, so please read the documentation.

You may want to tweak this for your usage, I picked 4 gig. A 4 gig box will run you 40 bucks a month, or $0.06 cents an hour, while a 2 gig instance will cost you $0.03 per hour or 20 bucks a month. Don’t forget to blow the machine away, if you aren’t planing on running the Digital Ocean server 24×7. I take no responsibility for your forgetfulness ;). I haven’t tested this build with anything other then Ubuntu, but I’d be interested if you got it working on other distributions.

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JJ works with Strategic Technical Alliances at Chef Software making integrations work with Chef, Habitat, and InSpec. He works on everything from Azure, VMware, OpenStack, and Cisco with everything in between. He also heads up the Chef Partner Cookbook Program to make sure customers of Chef and vendors get the highest quality certified cookbooks. He grew up and currently lives in Austin, Texas.